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Definition: Congregation |
CongregationNoun1. A group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church. 2. An assemblage of people or animals or things collected together; "a congregation of children pleaded for his autograph"; "a great congregation of birds flew over". 3. The act of congregating. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "congregation" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
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Bible | Congregation (Heb. kahal), the Hebrew people collectively as a holy community (Num. 15:15). Every circumcised Hebrew from twenty years old and upward was a member of the congregation. Strangers resident in the land, if circumcised, were, with certain exceptions (Ex. 12:19; Num. 9:14; Deut. 23:1-3), admitted to the privileges of citizenship, and spoken of as members of the congregation (Ex. 12:19; Num. 9:14; 15:15). The congregation were summonded together by the sound of two silver trumpets, and they met at the door of the tabernacle (Num. 10:3). These assemblies were convened for the purpose of engaging in solemn religious services (Ex. 12:27; Num. 25:6; Joel 2:15), or of receiving new commandments (Ex. 19:7, 8). The elders, who were summonded by the sound of one trumpet (Num. 10:4), represented on various occasions the whole congregation (Ex. 3:16; 12:21; 17:5; 24:1). After the conquest of Canaan, the people were assembled only on occasions of the highest national importance (Judg. 20; 2 Chr. 30:5; 34:29; 1 Sam. 10:17; 2 Sam. 5:1-5; 1 Kings 12:20; 2 Kings 11:19; 21:24; 23:30). In subsequent times the congregation was represented by the Sanhedrim; and the name synagogue, applied in the Septuagint version exclusively to the congregation, came to be used to denote the places of worship established by the Jews. (See CHURCH.) In Acts 13:43, where alone it occurs in the New Testament, it is the same word as that rendered "synagogue" (q.v.) in ver. 42, and is so rendered in ver. 43 in R.V. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
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Synonyms: CongregationSynonyms: congregating (n), faithful (n), fold (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Assemblage | Noun: {opp. } assemblage; collection, collocation, colligation; compilation, levy, gathering, ingathering, muster, attroupement; team; concourse, conflux, congregation, contesseration, convergence; meeting, levee, reunion, drawing room, at home; conversazione; (social gathering); assembly, congress; convention, conventicle; gemote; conclave; (council); posse, posse comitatus; Noah's ark. |
Laity | Noun: laity, flock, fold, congregation, assembly, brethren, people; society. |
Worship | Worshipper, congregation, communicant, celebrant. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Congregation |
| English words defined with "congregation": alms dish, alms tray ♦ bell ringer ♦ church bench, congregational, Congregational Church ♦ flock ♦ Homilist ♦ Index prohibitorius ♦ Lay clerk, Lazarite, litany ♦ Maurist, Mechitarist ♦ offertory ♦ pastoral, pew, Prohibitory index ♦ rabbi, Redemptorist, response, ringer, rotundly ♦ Samaj, sonorously, synagogue, Synaxis ♦ Tabernacle, temple, toller ♦ vehicle, versicle, vestry. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "congregation": Age hoc, Article omitted ♦ Bees ♦ Call to the Pastorate, CLERGY MEMBER, Congregationalists, Copernicanism ♦ DIRECTOR, RELIGIOUS EDUCATION ♦ Flower Sermon ♦ HOMILETICS ♦ Independents ♦ Liguorians ♦ Mount of the congregation ♦ Piarists ♦ religious association, reliquary ♦ SHAKESPEARE, SPOIL PUDDING ♦ Wailing-place, Jews'. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "congregation": Mechitarist. (references) |
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Screenplays | Without the ring, there is no sacrifice, with out the sacrifice there is no congregation, without the congregation there'll be nomoreme. (Help!; writing credit: Marc Behm; Charles Wood) I heard that the Rabbi who must congratulate himself has a congregation of one. (Fiddler on the Roof; writing credit: Sholom Aleichem; Joseph Stein) | |
Movie/TV Titles | St. Mary's Congregation (1900) | |
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 | Possibly a mating congregation of jacks - males darker Jacks are a high-level inshore predator built for speed. Credit: The Coral Kingdom. |  | Doctor In Law Or Physic, in Congregation Robes. / T. Uwins delt. J. Agar sculpt. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Notable religious gathering--Pope Pius receives ecclesiastical congregation and tribunal of cardinals at Vatican. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Sunday morning, Guanah, Texas. White congregation, ninety in attendance. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Church once supported by a prosperous congregation now abandoned, because the population moved out as a result of depletion of lumber and soil. Chaneysville, Pennsylvania. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Toledo, Ohio. Evangelical church ceremony at which the preacher delivered a hysterical speech, and then burned a copy of Hitler's Mein Kampf. Sisters of the congregation kneeling in prayer. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Congregation coming out of church on Sunday in Linwood, Kentucky. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Congregation Shaavi Zadek, 2030 Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn. Night exterior. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Baptist congregation, Alma Plantation, False River, La. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Prisoners in the woodyard, Darrington State Farm, Texas; A Baptist congregation at Alma Plantation, False River, Louisiana; Portrait of Rev. Haynes at Eatonville, Florida; A Methodist church; Portrait of an African American child. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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 | Church; cathedral; organ; congregation; congregate; God; worship. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Mission congregation, one hundred livres. |
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Civil Liberties | Iran | Worshipers are subject to identity checks by authorities posted outside congregation centers. (references) |
Turkey | A Christian congregation in Gaziantep encountered difficulty in obtaining permission to hold services. (references) | |
India | On March 23, alleged BJP and RSS activists attacked a Christian congregation at Chevalla in Andhra Pradesh. (references) | |
Economic History | The Holy See | Among the most active of the major Curial institutions are the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which oversees church doctrine; the Congregation for Bishops, which coordinates the appointment of bishops worldwide; the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, which oversees all missionary activities; and the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, which deals with international peace and social issues. (references) |
Human Rights | Pakistan | On October 28, three assailants shot and killed a police officer on guard outside of St. Dominic's church in Bahawalpur during Protestant services at the church; they then entered the church, closed its doors, and began firing into the congregation. (references) |
Minorities | Georgia | In December 2000, Basilists encircled a 5,000 square meter plot of land where a local Pentecostal congregation planned to build a multi-purpose building. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | RELIQUARY, n. A receptacle for such sacred objects as pieces of the true cross, short-ribs of the saints, the ears of Balaam's ass, the lung of the cock that called Peter to repentance and so forth. Reliquaries are commonly of metal, and provided with a lock to prevent the contents from coming out and performing miracles at unseasonable times. A feather from the wing of the Angel of the Annunciation once escaped during a sermon in Saint Peter's and so tickled the noses of the congregation that they woke and sneezed with great vehemence three times each. It is related in the "Gesta Sanctorum" that a sacristan in the Canterbury cathedral surprised the head of Saint Dennis in the library. Reprimanded by its stern custodian, it explained that it was seeking a body of doctrine. This unseemly levity so raged the diocesan that the offender was publicly anathematized, thrown into the Stour and replaced by another head of Saint Dennis, brought from Rome. |
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Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | I challenge every religious congregation, every community nonprofit, every business to hire someone off welfare. |
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| "Congregation" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 69.30% of the time. "Congregation" is used about 973 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 69.3% | 674 | 9,792 |
| Noun (common) | 30.7% | 299 | 16,795 |
| Total | 100.00% | 973 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "congregation". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Jekabzeel | N/A | Biblical | The congregation of God |
| Jekuthiel | N/A | Biblical | Congregation |
| Kabzeel | N/A | Biblical | The congregation of God |
| Kehelahath | N/A | Biblical | A congregation |
| Kibzaim | N/A | Biblical | Congregation |
| Koa | N/A | Biblical | A congregation |
| Kohath | N/A | Biblical | Congregation |
| Tikvah | N/A | Biblical | Congregation |
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Expressions using "congregation": Congregation of the Holy Cross ♦ Congregation of the Lord ♦ Mount of the congregation. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "congregation"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | mbledhje (accumulation, addition, assemblage, assembly, clearing, collection, contraction, convocation, council, erection, furl, gathering, Ingathering, meeting, muster, picking, proceedings, rally, reaping, retraction, round up, session, shrinkage, sitting, squat, summation, turn out), kongregacion, grumbullim (accumulation, agglomeration, aggregate, amassment, collection, conglomeration, crowding, cumulation, gathering, Ingathering, milling, muster, rally, round up, ruck, turn out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | محفل, مجموعة أشياء, مجمع (academy, assembly, college, convention), تجمع (aggregation, assemblage, assemble, collect, concentrate, concourse, converge, convergence, flock, gather, gathering, get together, group, grouping, huddle, league, mass, muster, organization, pile up, pool, press, rally, reassemble), طائفة (brotherhood, church, communion, confession, denomination, fellowship, persuasion, religion, sect, sodality), جماعة مصلين, أبرشية (archdiocese, charge, eparchy, parish, province, see). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | събор (jamboree), струпване (agglomeration, aggregation, amassment, cluster, concourse, crowding), академичен съвет (convocation, regent house, senate), богомолци, паство (flock, sheep). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 集合 (gather). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | shromažïování, kongregace. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | seurakunta (parish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | congrégation, confession (confession), rassemblement (college, concourse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Versammlung (assemblage, assembly, convening, convention, convocation, gathering, house, meeting, mustering, powwow, rally, rallying, sitting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | εκκλησίασμα. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מק"ל (assembly), ק"ל" (assembly, community, public), ק"ל "מתפללים, ע"" (assembly, community, flock, swarm), "תק"לות (assembling, concourse, crowding, gathering), צבור (accumulated, community, conglomerated, gathered, heap, pile, piled, public). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | gyülekezet (assemblage, assembly, convention, muster, turnout), egyházközség (parish, peculiar, vicarage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | jemaah (congregant), dewan (council). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | congregazione, riunione (assembly, get together, meet, meeting, muster, proceedings, rally, reunion, round up, session), adunanza (assembly, meeting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 会衆 (audience). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | かいしゅう (assembly, audience, collection, conversion, improvement, meeting, recovery, repair). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 집회. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | pobble (community, folk, masses, people, population), cruinnaghey (assemblage, assemblage persons, beseige, enclose, focus, gather, head, hive, huddle, mass, raise, round, screw up, sum up, troop), chionnal (assembly, crowd, jam, mob, multitude, turn out, turn out of people). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ongregationcay conselho (admonishment, admonition, advice, board, conclave, council, counsel, district, hint, quakers' meeting, rede, tip, township), congregação (flock, quakersmeeting, sodality), reunião (assemblage, assembly, bee, collection, combination, combine, conclave, conference, gathering, group, heap, herd, meet, meeting, moot, muster, omnium gatherum, powwow, quakers' meeting, rally, reunion, roll call, session, sitting, turn-out), paróquia (chapelry, parish, township), fiéis (quakers' meeting). (various references) congregaţie, comunitate (commune, community, intercommunity, membership, throng), adunare (accumulation, addition, aggregate, assemblage, assembly, cluster, collection, conference, congress, conjunction, convention, convocation, crowd, footing up, gathering, heap, hoarding, meeting, muster, powwow, rally, reunion, rodeo, sitting, social, tot, turn out), întrunire (assembly, bevy, get together, meet, meeting, rally). (various references) конгрегация. (various references) comh-thional (assembly), pobull (people, tribe). (various references) zajednica (association, community, public, society, unity), skup (aggregate, assemblage, bevy, concourse, conference, congress, convention, convolution, costly, expensive, fancy, gathering, ingathering, meeting, troop), kongregacija (congregationalism). (various references) congregación. (various references) församling (assemblage, assembly, convocation, court, diet, gathering, gatherings, meeting, parish). (various references) cemaat (boodle, caboodle, communion, community, crowd, flock, fold, parish, sect, troop), toplanma (accumulation, agglomeration, aggregation, assemblage, bee, build up, collection, coming together, concentration, concourse, congress, convention, gathering, getting together, grouping, muster, rally, rallying, reunion, rush), toplama (addition, agglomerate, agglomeration, aggregation, casting-up, catchment, collecting, collection, concentration, convention, cull, gathering, gleanings, grouping, picking, rallying, roundup, summation), senato toplantısı, dinsel örgüt. (various references) сходка, конгрегація, збори (convocation, gathering, jamboree, meeting, powwow), паства (charge, obedience). (various references) sự tập hợp (aggregation, assemblage, muster), sự tụ tập (assemblage). (various references) cynulleidfa (assembly, audience). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | synagoga, synagogae, synagogam, synagogas, synagogis. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 5, Verse 14 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Par' oligon egenomhn en panti kakw en mesw ekklhsiaV kai sunagwghV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Paene fui in omni malo in medio ecclesiae et synagogae |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Neyh I was in alle euel, in the myddel of the chirche, and of the synagoge. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | I was in almost all evil in the company of the people. |
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| Language | Proverbs Chapter 5, Verse 14 |
| Cebuano | Ako haduol kaayo sa tanang kadautan Sa kinataliwad-an sa pagkatigum ug sa katilingban. |
| Croatian | I umalo ne zapadoh u svako zlo, usred zbora i zajednice!" |
| Danish | Nær var jeg kommet i alskens Ulykke midt i Forsamling og Menighed!" |
| Dutch | Ik ben bijna in alle kwaad geweest, in het midden der gemeente en der vergadering! |
| Finnish | Olin joutua kokonaan turmion omaksi keskellä seurakunnan ja kansankokouksen." |
| French | Peu s`en est fallu que je n`aie éprouvé tous les malheurs Au milieu du peuple et de l`assemblée. |
| German | Ich bin schier in alles Unglück gekommen vor allen Leuten und allem Volk." |
| Hungarian | Kevés híja volt, hogy minden gonoszságba nem merültem a gyülekezetnek és községnek közepette! |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Tahu-tahu aku telah jatuh di mata masyarakat." |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Nyaris aku tenggelam dalam segala kejahatan, di tengah-tengah sidang dan perhimpunan! |
| Italian | Per poco non mi son trovato nel colmo dei mali in mezzo alla folla e all'assemblea». |
| Maori | Wahi iti kei nga kino katoa ahau i waenganui o te whakaminenga, o te huihui. |
| Norwegian | Nær var jeg kommet i den største ulykke midt i forsamlingen og menigheten. |
| Portuguese | Quase cheguei ruína completa, no meio da congregação e da assembléia. |
| Rumanian | Ckt pe ce sq mq nenorocesc de tot kn mijlocul poporului wi adunqrii!`` |
| Russian | Е"ЧБ ОЕ Ч БМ С ЧП ЧУСЛПЕ ЪМП УТЕ"Й УП'ТБОЙС Й П'ЭЕУФЧБ!` |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "congregation": congregational, congregationalism, congregationalisms, congregationalist, congregationalists, congregations. (additional references) | |
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"Congregation" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cngregation, coaggregation, congelation, congragation, congregatio, congregatior, congretation, conregation. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "congregation" (pronounced kÄ'nggrugā"shun) |
| 8 | -g r u g ā" sh u n | desegregation, segregation. |
| 7 | -r u g ā" sh u n | abrogation, interrogation, irrigation. |
| 6 | -u g ā" sh u n | allegation, conjugation, delegation, fumigation, investigation, litigation, navigation, negation, obligation, propagation. |
| 5 | -g ā" sh u n | elongation, instigation, ligation, mitigation. |
| 4 | -ā" sh u n | abbreviation, abdication, aberration, abomination, acceleration, acclimation, accommodation, accreditation, accumulation, accusation, acidification, activation, adaptation, adjudication, administration, admiration, adoration, adulation, advocation, affectation, affiliation, affirmation, agglomeration, aggravation, agitation, alienation, alleviation, allocation, alphabetization, alteration, altercation, amalgamation, amelioration, amortization, amplification, amputation, animation, annexation, annihilation, annotation, anticipation, antidiscrimination, appellation, application, appreciation, approbation, appropriation, approximation, arbitration, argumentation, articulation, aspiration, assassination, assimilation, association, augmentation, authentication, authorization, automation, aviation, avocation, balkanization, bifurcation, calculation, calibration, cancellation, cannibalization, capitalization, capitulation, carnation, castration, categorization, causation, celebration, centralization, certification, cessation, cetacean, characterization, citation, civilization, clarification, classification, coagulation, codification, cogeneration, cogitation, cohabitation, collaboration, collectivization, colonization, coloration, colorization, combination, commemoration, commendation, commercialization, communication, communization, compensation, compilation, complication, computation, computerization, concatenation, concentration, conciliation, condemnation, condensation, confabulation, confederation, configuration, confirmation, confiscation, conflagration, confrontation, conglomeration, congratulation, connotation, consecration, conservation, consideration, consolation, consolidation, constellation, consternation, constipation, consultation, consummation, contamination, contemplation, continuation, conversation, convocation, cooperation, coordination, coronation, corporation, correlation, corroboration, creation, cremation, criminalization, crustacean, culmination, cultivation, dalmatian, damnation, decaffeination, decapitation, deceleration, decentralization, decertification, declaration, decontamination, decoration, decriminalization, dedication, defamation, deflation, deforestation, deformation, degeneration, degradation, dehumanization, dehydration, deification, deinstitutionalization, deliberation, delineation, demarcation, demilitarization, demobilization, democratization, demodulation, demonization, demonstration, demoralization, denationalization, denomination, denuclearization, denunciation, depopulation, deportation, depravation, depreciation, depredation, deprivation, deregulation, derivation, desalination, desalinization, desecration, desiccation, designation, desolation, desperation, destabilization, destination, determination, detonation, detoxication, detoxification, devaluation, devastation, deviation, dictation, differentiation, dilatation, dilation, discoloration, discontinuation, discrimination, disembarkation, disinclination, disinflation, disinformation, disintegration, dislocation, disorganization, disorientation, dispensation, disputation, disqualification, dissemination, dissertation, dissipation, dissociation, distillation, diversification, divination, documentation, domestication, domination, donation, dramatization, duplication, duration, echolocation, edification, education, ejaculation, elaboration, elation, electrification, elevation, elimination, emanation, emancipation, embarkation, emigration, emulation, enumeration, equalization, equitation, equivocation, eradication, escalation, estimation, evacuation, evaluation, evaporation, evocation, exacerbation, exaggeration, examination, exasperation, excavation, excitation, exclamation, excommunication, exfoliation, exhalation, exhilaration, exhortation, exhumation, exoneration, expatriation, expectation, experimentation, expiration, explanation, explication, exploitation, exploration, expropriation, extermination, extrapolation, fabrication, facilitation, falsification, fascination, federation, fermentation, fertilization, fibrillation, figuration, filtration, fixation, flirtation, flotation, fluctuation, fluoridation, foliation, formation, formulation, fortification, foundation, fragmentation, frustration, gasification, gastrulation, generalization, generation, gentrification, germination, gestation, glaciation, globalization, glorification, gradation, graduation, granulation, gratification, gravitation, gyration, habitation, hallucination, harmonization, hesitation, hibernation, hospitalization, humiliation, hybridization, hydration, hydrogenation, hyperinflation, identification, illumination, illustration, imagination, imitation, immigration, immunization, impersonation, implantation, implementation, implication, importation, impregnation, improvisation, imputation, inactivation, inauguration, incantation, incapacitation, incarceration, incarnation, inclination, incoordination, incorporation, incrimination, incrustation, incubation, indemnification, indentation, indexation, indication, indignation, indoctrination, industrialization, infatuation, infestation, infiltration, inflammation, inflation, information, inhabitation, inhalation, initiation, innovation, inoculation, insemination, insinuation, inspiration, installation, institutionalization, instrumentation, insubordination, insulation, integration, intensification, internationalization, interpretation, intimation, intimidation, intonation, intoxication, inundation, invalidation, invitation, invocation, ionization, irradiation, irritation, isolation, jubilation, justification, laceration, lactation, legalization, legislation, levitation, liberalization, liberation, libration, limitation, liquidation, localization, location, lubrication, machination, magnetization, magnification, malformation, manifestation, manipulation, marginalization, masturbation, maturation, maximization, mechanization, mediation, medication, meditation, menstruation, migration, mineralization, miniaturization, ministration, misallocation, misapplication, misappropriation, miscalculation, mischaracterization, miscommunication, miscreation, misidentification, misinformation, misinterpretation, misrepresentation, mobilization, moderation, modernization, modification, modulation, molestation, monopolization, motivation, multiplication, mummification, mutation, mutilation, narration, nation, nationalization, naturalization, negotiation, neutralization, nitration, nomination, nondiscrimination, nonproliferation, normalization, notation, notification, nucleation, nullification, obfuscation, observation, occupation, operation, optimization, oration, orchestration, ordination, organisation, organization, orientation, origination, ornamentation, oscillation, ossification, ostentation, ovation, overpopulation, overregulation, overvaluation, ovulation, oxidation, pacification, pagination, palpitation, participation, pasteurization, penetration, perforation, permutation, perpetuation, personalization, personification, perspiration, perturbation, pigmentation, plantation, polarization, politicization, pollination, pontification, popularization, population, precipitation, predestination, prefabrication, premeditation, preoccupation, preparation, presentation, preservation, pressurization, privation, privatization, probation, proclamation, procrastination, procreation, profanation, prognostication, proliferation, pronunciation, proration, prostration, protestation, provocation, publication, punctuation, purification, qualification, quantification, quotation, radiation, radicalization, ramification, ratification, rationalization, reaffirmation, realization, reallocation, reauthorization, recalculation, recantation, recapitalization, recertification, recitation, reclamation, reclassification, recommendation, reconciliation, reconfiguration, reconfirmation, reconsideration, recreation, recrimination, rectification, recuperation, redecoration, rededication, reevaluation, reexamination, reflation, reforestation, reformation, refrigeration, refutation, regeneration, regimentation, registration, regulation, rehabilitation, rehydration, reincarnation, reincorporation, reinterpretation, reinvigoration, reiteration, rejuvenation, relation, relaxation, relocation, remediation, remuneration, renationalization, renegotiation, renomination, renovation, renunciation, reorganization, reparation, repatriation, replication, representation, repudiation, reputation, reregulation, reservation, resignation, respiration, restoration, resuscitation, retaliation, retardation, reunification, revaluation, revelation, reverberation, revitalization, revocation, rotation, rumination, salvation, sanctification, sanitation, saponification, saturation, securitization, sedation, sedimentation, segmentation, sensation, separation, sequestration, simplification, simulation, situation, socialization, solicitation, sophistication, specialization, specification, speculation, stabilization, stagflation, stagnation, standardization, starvation, station, sterilization, stimulation, stipulation, strangulation, subluxation, subordination, subsidization, substantiation, suburbanization, suffocation, summation, superstation, syndication, tabulation, taxation, telecommunication, temptation, termination, titillation, toleration, transformation, transillumination, translation, transplantation, transportation, trepidation, triangulation, tribulation, undervaluation, unification, unionization, urbanization, usurpation, utilization, vacation, vaccination, vacillation, validation, valuation, vaporization, variation, vegetation, ventilation, verification, vibration, victimization, vilification, vindication, violation, visitation, visualization, vocation, vulgarization, westernization. |
| 3 | -sh u n | abduction, abolition, abortion, absolution, absorption, abstraction, academician, accession, accretion, acquisition, action, addiction, addition, admission, admonition, adoption, advection, affection, affliction, aggression, alliteration, alternation, ambition, ammunition, antiabortion, anticorruption, apparition, apportion, apprehension, ascension, ashen, assertion, assumption, attention, attraction, attribution, attrition, auction, audition, beautician, benediction, brutalization, caption, carburetion, caution, circulation, circumspection, clinician, coalition, coercion, cognition, collection, commission, commotion, compassion, competition, completion, complexion, composition, comprehension, compression, compulsion, compunction, conception, conceptualization, concession, concoction, concussion, condescension, condition, conduction, confection, confession, conjunction, connection, conniption, conscription, constitution, constriction, construction, consumption, contention, contortion, contraception, contraction, contradiction, contraption, contribution, contrition, convection, convention, conviction, convolution, convulsion, correction, corruption, counterrevolution, crucifixion, cushion, deception, decimation, decommission, decomposition, decompression, deconstruction, deduction, defection, definition, deletion, demolition, demotion, dentition, depiction, depletion, deposition, depression, dereliction, description, desertion, destitution, destruction, detection, detention, deterioration, devolution, devotion, diction, dietitian, diffraction, digression, dilution, dimension, diminution, direction, disaffection, disconnection, discretion, discussion, disinfection, disposition, disruption, dissatisfaction, dissection, dissension, dissolution, distinction, distortion, distraction, distribution, dysfunction, edition, egyptian, ejection, election, electrician, electrocution, elocution, emission, emotion, emulsion, encryption, erection, erudition, eruption, eviction, evolution, exaction, exception, excoriation, excretion, execution, exemption, exertion, exhibition, expansion, expedition, exposition, expression, expulsion, extension, extinction, extortion, extraction, extradition, faction, fashion, fiction, fission, flexion, formalization, fraction, freshen, friction, fruition, function, gentian, geriatrician, gumption, hessian, homogenization, hypertension, hypotension, ignition, impassion, imperfection, imposition, impression, inaction, inception, incineration, indiscretion, induction, infarction, infection, inflection, infliction, infraction, inhibition, injection, injunction, inquisition, inscription, insertion, inspection, institution, instruction, insurrection, interaction, interception, intercession, interconnection, interdiction, interjection, intermission, interruption, intersection, introduction, introspection, intuition, invention, junction, jurisdiction, juxtaposition, lilliputian, liposuction, liquefaction, locomotion, logician, lotion, magician, malfunction, malnutrition, mansion, martian, mathematician, mention, midsection, misapprehension, misconception, misimpression, misperception, mission, mortician, motion, munition, musician, nonaggression, nonfiction, nonprescription, notion, nutrition, objection, obsession, obstetrician, obstruction, ocean, omission, opposition, oppression, optician, option, overconsumption, overexpansion, overproduction, overprotection, overreaction, oversimplification, partition, passion, patrician, pediatrician, pension, perception, percussion, perfection, permission, persecution, petition, physician, politician, pollution, portion, position, possession, potion, precaution, precession, preconception, precondition, prediction, predilection, predisposition, preelection, preemption, preignition, premonition, prescription, presumption, presupposition, pretension, prevention, procession, production, profession, progression, prohibition, projection, promotion, proportion, proposition, propulsion, proscription, prosecution, prostitution, protection, ration, reaction, reassertion, reception, recession, recognition, recollection, recondition, reconstruction, redefinition, redemption, redirection, redistribution, reduction, reeducation, reelection, reflection, regression, reimposition, reinspection, reintegration, reintroduction, reinvention, rejection, remission, rendition, repercussion, repetition, reposition, repossession, repression, reproduction, requisition, resolution, restitution, restriction, resumption, resurrection, retention, retraction, retransmission, retribution, revolution, revulsion, rhetorician, sanction, satisfaction, secession, secretion, section, sedition, seduction, selection, session, solution, statistician, submission, subscription, subsection, substation, substitution, subtraction, succession, suction, superstition, supposition, suppression, suspension, suspicion, syncopation, tactician, technician, tension, theoretician, titian, traction, tradition, transaction, transcription, transection, transgression, transition, transmission, tuition, venetian, volition, workstation. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-g-g-i-n-n-o-o-r-t" | |
-2 letters: cartooning, congregant, coronating, oceangoing. | |
-3 letters: cantering, cartoning, cognation, contagion, container, crenation, enrooting, goitrogen, gorgonian, ignorance, intergang, nonerotic, ratooning, recanting. | |
-4 letters: agenting, angering, anointer, anoretic, argentic, canoeing, catering, centring, conation, congaing, coronate, crannoge, creating, creation, crooning, enacting, encaging, encoring, enraging, garoting, gerontic, granting, groaning, ignorant, negating, negation, negatron, nitrogen, nonactor, orogenic, reacting, reaction, reanoint. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-g-g-i-n-n-o-o-r-t" | |
+1 letter: congregations, organogenetic. | |
+2 letters: conglomerating, congregational. | |
+4 letters: roentgenographic, roentgenological. | |
+5 letters: congregationalism, congregationalist, counteraggression. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Sounds | 9. Quotations: Fiction 10. Quotations: Non-fiction 11. Quotations: Speeches 12. Usage Frequency | 13. Names: Derived from 14. Expressions 15. Expressions: Internet 16. Translations: Modern | 17. Translations: Ancient 18. Bible Trace 19. Derivations 20. Rhymes | 21. Anagrams 22. Bibliography |
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